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Topic: Foregut Disease: Minimally Invasive Treatment of Bariatric
Surgery

Prof. Michel Gagner

Department of Surgery, Westmount Square Surgical Center,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Prof. Michel Gagner was born in 1960 in Montreal, Quebec,
Canada. He earned his Diploma in Sciences from the Seminaire
de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, in 1978 and his
Doctor of Medicine degree from the Faculté de Médecine de
l’Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, in
1982. He completed his surgical training at McGill University in
Montreal from 1982 to 1988. During his residency, he undertook
a two-year PhD program on human lipolysis in sepsis at
the Royal Victoria Hospital at McGill University from 1984 to 1986. He subsequently completed fellowships
in hepatic surgery at Hospital Villejuif in Paris, France, and pancreaticobiliary surgery at Lahey Clinic
Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA, from 1989 to 1990.

Upon completion of his fellowships, he was recruited to Université de Montréal, School of Medicine,
Hôtel-Dieu de Montreal, where he was Assistant Professor of Surgery from 1990 to 1995. Following this,
Prof. Gagner worked at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH, USA, where he co-founded
the Minimally Invasive Surgery Center from 1995 to 1998. He was appointed the Franz Sichel Professor
of Surgery and Director of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Center of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in
New York from 1998 to 2003. He then joined Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York as
Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Section of Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery from 2003 to 2007. He
was, until recently, Chair of the Department of Surgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami and
Professor of Surgery at Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. He is currently a Professor of
Surgery in Montreal.

Prof. Gagner is renowned for his contributions in the field of minimally invasive surgery, in particular
the first description of laparoscopic adrenalectomy for Cushing syndrome and pheochromocytoma in
1992, laparoscopic pancreatectomy, distal and proximal, from 1992 to 1993, endoscopic neck surgery with
parathyroidectomy in 1995, transgastric cholecystectomy in 1997, laparoscopic duodenal switch for obesity
in 1999, and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in 2000. More recently, Prof. Gagner was co-surgeon for the
first world transatlantic robotic cholecystectomy, between New York City and Strasbourg, France. It is the
only surgical article published in Nature in 2001.

He has over 300 published journal articles, 40 book chapters, and 8 books on minimally invasive surgery.
He has been a visiting professor and operated in over 60 institutions across 48 countries, held prominent
positions in more than 35 societies and organizations, and served on the Editorial Boards of 12 surgical
journals.

Prof. Gagner has received a number of honorary memberships and awards throughout his career. His most
recent contributions focus on innovative upper digestive tract surgery, such as bariatric and endoluminal
gastric procedures.